Top 10 Favorite Works Under Ten Minutes

[pjme]

1/ Debussy: Danse sacrée et danse profane (harp & strings -usually 9 -11 minutes...)
2/ Schubert : Notturno (trio)
3/ Brahms : Ich schwing mein Horn ins Jammertal - chorus
4/ Honegger: Pastorale d'été (small orchestra)
5/ There is no rose of such virtue (15th century England) version by Chanticleer
6/ Hahn: A Chloris (as sung by Susan Graham)
7/ von Koch: Nordiskt capriccio (orchestra)
8/ Kodaly: Adventi ének (chorus)
9/ Paul Dukas: Fanfare pour précéder La Péri
10/Haydn:Sonata- un piccolo divertimento Hoboken XVII: 6


Etc.

[Madiel]

Nielsen - Maskarade overture

I think you'll find that's attached to a work that is rather longer than 10 minutes.

Still thinking about my list. I expect it will mostly be piano pieces.

[Brian]

I think you'll find that's attached to a work that is rather longer than 10 minutes.

"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." - MLK

[PerfectWagnerite]

Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Weber's Invitation to the Dance
Webern's Passacaglia Op 1

[Mirror Image]

Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Weber's Invitation to the Dance
Webern's Passacaglia Op 1

I probably could've chosen a Webern work as so many of his pieces are under 10 minutes.

[Madiel]

"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." - MLK

In that context a law is not unjust merely because it cramps your style.

[Madiel]

Only one work per composer is what might kill me here...

Bach: Two-part Invention No.14 in B flat, just because I've always found it fascinating.
Barber: Three Songs, op.45
Bridge: Sir Roger de Coverley (A Christmas Dance)
Chopin: Ballade No.1
Faure: Nocturne No.6 (or any one of several other piano pieces really)
Ravel: Jeux d'eau
Shostakovich: Five Romances on Words from Krokodil Magazine, op.121
Sibelius: The orchestral song 'Serenad'

And that was as far as I could get while being honest about things I know I genuinely really like.

...also, I'd like to see evidence of all these recordings of Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune that are under 10 minutes.

[Jo498]

Neither rare nor exotic, but two of the first three I grabbed from the shelf (the third, Salonen, gives 10:09 on the backcover)

Ansermet/Decca 1957 9:03,
Boulez/Sony 1966 9:41

[ritter]

Only one work per composer is what might kill me here...

...also, I'd like to see evidence of all these recordings of Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune that are under 10 minutes.

Not that it's on my list (the Faun is far from my favourite Debussy orchestral piece), but... voilà:

https://youtu.be/hmXOd5CuDFg

EDIT: I see Jo498 best me to it 

[Jo498]

It wouldn't make my list either. But there are certainly quite a few pieces around 10 min. I had Mendelssohn's Hebrides on my list and was pretty sure that it would be below 10 min. Then I checked a couple of recordings and none was even close to 10 (more 11 or longer) so I scratched it. In the case of Chopin's 4th Ballade I "cheated" insofar that I took one recording below 10 as sufficient although I am pretty sure than most are longer, up to about 12 min.

[Madiel]

Okay. My Debussy was over 11, so I was curious.

[ritter]

It wouldn't make my list either. But there are certainly quite a few pieces around 10 min. I had Mendelssohn's Hebrides on my list and was pretty sure that it would be below 10 min. Then I checked a couple of recordings and none was even close to 10 (more 11 or longer) so I scratched it. In the case of Chopin's 4th Ballade I "cheated" insofar that I took one recording below 10 as sufficient although I am pretty sure than most are longer, up to about 12 min.

Something similar happened to me with the Cristóbal Halffter piece I included. What I really like is the original (choral) Preludio para Madrid '92, but the composer's recording (and another one on YouTube) are slightly above the 10' mark. So I settled for the purely orchestral later version, Preludio para Madrid 2002 (just short of 10'). Then I realised that an alternative recording of the choral version  conducted by the composer's son Pedro Halffter complies with the time limit:

https://youtu.be/uucr368goI0

A find this piece, based on Antonio Soler's Fandango and very typical of its composer's Spätstil, quite attractive. 

[André]

It wouldn't make my list either. But there are certainly quite a few pieces around 10 min. I had Mendelssohn's Hebrides on my list and was pretty sure that it would be below 10 min. Then I checked a couple of recordings and none was even close to 10 (more 11 or longer) so I scratched it. In the case of Chopin's 4th Ballade I "cheated" insofar that I took one recording below 10 as sufficient although I am pretty sure than most are longer, up to about 12 min.

Duration is as much an impression as a data. I had intended to include Schubert's Hirt auf dem Felsen but, upon checking various versions I have, I found out they clock in around 12 minutes. And yet, it seems to fly by so fast !

[kyjo]

Let's see...

Atterberg: A Varmland Rhapsody
Barber: School for Scandal Overture (or First Essay)
Chaminade: Thème varié for piano
Dvořák: Carnival Overture
Finzi: Romance for string orchestra
Honegger: Pastorale d'été
Lilburn: Aotearoa Overture
Puccini: Crisantemi
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Webern: Langsamer Satz

[some guy]

Duration is as much an impression as a data. I had intended to include Schubert's Hirt auf dem Felsen but, upon checking various versions I have, I found out they clock in around 12 minutes. And yet, it seems to fly by so fast !

True dat, André. I went to a performance of Mahler's 6th many years ago. The four of us who had gone to it together looked at each other incredulously once it was over--our group impression was that only about 15 or 20 minutes had passed. No way we had been there for an hour and a half.

But here's a way to ensure that performance times don't mess up the results--confine yourself to fixed media electroacoustic, only.

Varèse-Poeme electronique
Nordheim-Dinosaurus
Fulton-Bowling for Blood
Schottstaedt-Dinosaur Music
Otondo-irama
Hodgkinson-Black Death and Errors in Construction
Xenakis-Mycenae Alpha
Clyne-Choke
Mandolini-Canción De Madera Y Agua
Bolte-And Death

Not as easy as I thought it would be. Many of my most treasured pieces go from 10:05 and up. But these ten are fine, so....

[Florestan]

True dat, André. I went to a performance of Mahler's 6th many years ago. The four of us who had gone to it together looked at each other incredulously once it was over--our group impression was that only about 15 or 20 minutes had passed. No way we had been there for an hour and a half.

"Parsifal is the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock. After it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20" --- David Randolph